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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Name Changes
Message-ID: <1981@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 11:08:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: mnetor.1981
Posted: Wed Sep  4 11:08:38 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Sep-85 12:15:07 EDT
References: <262@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Summary: 

In article <262@cornell.UUCP> peckham@cornell.UUCP (Stephen Peckham) writes:
>> 	Changing one's identity, presumably for life, is *NOT* a trivial
>> issue. If it were, why aren't men changing *their* names upon marriage ?
>
>Changing one's name is not changing one's identity.  Peoples' identities
>may change when they get married, but that happens to men as well as to
>women and has nothing to do to with names.  (It also happens when people have
>children.)  There are reasons for women to keep their names when they get
>married, but maintaining their identities is not one of them.

Speak for yourself, will you!  I think women have the right to decide what
they think are *valid* reasons for keeping their maiden names, just like
men have the right to decide for themselves what they think are valid
reasons for keeping their names.

What is this? the thought patrol or something?
-- 
Sophie Quigley
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